Swiss fintech amnis has successfully closed a Series-A funding round of CHF 8.6 million

AMNIS Treasury Services AG (amnis), a Zurich-based fintech founded in 2014 with the goal of reshaping international payments and financial services for SMEs, announced the closing of a CHF 8.6 million Series A funding round. The investment, led by Lansdowne Partners, will support the company’s continued market expansion and product development.

amnis provides SMEs with a global payments & finance platform to send international payments, exchange currencies, and collect funds—all in one cost-effective solution. Committed to transparency and efficiency, amnis helps businesses simplify their financial operations while reducing costs and complexity. During the last 12 months, the company entered 5 new countries, opened 3 additional offices in Vaduz, Vienna and Prague and tripled the size of its team. Moreover, the platform’s payment volume has dramatically increased by more than 100% compared to last year. The new investment funding allows amnis to strengthen the company’s main assets and to further expand into new markets across Europe.

Lansdowne Partners, as lead investor, is an investment management firm that aims to foster European technology innovation through its investments. Spicehaus Partners, who led the previous funding round, acted as co-lead investor. Daniel Andres, Co-founder and Partner at Spicehaus Partners, commented: “I believe that amnis is the best example of Swiss innovation and expertise, ready to expand internationally with an outstanding service portfolio tailor-made for SMEs.”

Michael Wüst, Co-founder and CEO of amnis, said: “We are delighted that our existing investors as well as a globally renowned investment manager contributed to the success of this financing round. The investment enables us to boost international growth further and to bring our global payments & finance platform to even more SMEs across Europe. We have already rolled out business activities in 6 countries. This funding round gives us the confidence that we can replicate our business model in other markets as well.”

Amnis was founded in 2014 by Michael Wüst (CEO), Robert Bloch (COO) and Philippe Christen (CFO) to facilitate international business for SMEs, a sector with huge potential that they believe is underserved by traditional banks. To meet its high ambitions, amnis constantly improved its core product, fast-tracked the digital onboarding and added local and multi-currency IBAN accounts to its product portfolio. Thanks to this successful financing round, amnis will start business in France, Slovakia, and the Benelux market by the end of 2022 and will provide more services to SMEs, including invoicing, debit cards and E-commerce solutions.

About amnis
amnis, a global payments & finance platform founded in Zurich in 2014, helps SMEs across Europe simplify international finances with modern financial services that go beyond traditional providers. In addition to currency exchange and cross-border and local payments, clients can make free, real-time transfers to suppliers around the world, 24/7, within the amnis PEER network.
To further support international business, amnis recently launched virtual IBAN accounts in customers’ own names, enabling companies to receive payments in more than 20 currencies.
Today, amnis serves more than 5,000 companies across 25+ countries. Authorised and supervised as a payment institution by the FMA Liechtenstein, and backed by a recent funding round, the company is continuing its strong growth trajectory. As part of its expansion across Central and Eastern Europe, amnis has already launched operations in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Italy.